31 min
#3: Reparations for Racial Injustices. With Charles Mills (Part 1) We The Pupils
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- Filosofi
What are reparations? What case can be made for the claim that racial injustices should be repaired? And what are some of the objections and practical obstacles to the enactment of reparations? In this episode and the next, students explore these questions with Charles Mills (The Graduate Center, CUNY).
Prior to this recorded conversation, students read and discussed: "The political economy of personhood," by Charles Mills (2015); and "The Case for Reparations," by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic, 2014). In his introductory words, you'll hear Charles Mills refer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971, Belknap). Charles Mills's recent Tanner Lecture on Human Values (University of Michigan) is available here.
This episode was recorded in the Spring 2018, before the protests for racial and social justice that have defined 2020 in the US and beyond. It bears noting that Joe Biden, the president-elect, pledged to support a study of reparations during the campaign.
We The Pupils is produced by Jules Salomone-Sehr. It was made possible by a Public Humanities Fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and supervised by the Center for the Humanities (The Graduate Center, CUNY). Theme music: Vanache. Special thanks to: Alisa Besher, Jordan Lord, Sampson Starkweather, Kendra Sullivan, and the students of Hunter College.
What are reparations? What case can be made for the claim that racial injustices should be repaired? And what are some of the objections and practical obstacles to the enactment of reparations? In this episode and the next, students explore these questions with Charles Mills (The Graduate Center, CUNY).
Prior to this recorded conversation, students read and discussed: "The political economy of personhood," by Charles Mills (2015); and "The Case for Reparations," by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic, 2014). In his introductory words, you'll hear Charles Mills refer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971, Belknap). Charles Mills's recent Tanner Lecture on Human Values (University of Michigan) is available here.
This episode was recorded in the Spring 2018, before the protests for racial and social justice that have defined 2020 in the US and beyond. It bears noting that Joe Biden, the president-elect, pledged to support a study of reparations during the campaign.
We The Pupils is produced by Jules Salomone-Sehr. It was made possible by a Public Humanities Fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and supervised by the Center for the Humanities (The Graduate Center, CUNY). Theme music: Vanache. Special thanks to: Alisa Besher, Jordan Lord, Sampson Starkweather, Kendra Sullivan, and the students of Hunter College.
31 min